likelihood是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 可能性，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Whatever likelihood of success Australia may offer us, wouldn't it be advisable to stop a day or two at the Tristan d'Acunha Isles and the Amsterdam?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The gaoler standing at his side, and the other gaolers moving about, who would have been well enough as to appearance in the ordinary exercise of their functions, looked so extravagantly coarse contrast-ed with sorrowing mothers and blooming daughters who were there with the apparitions of the coquette, the young beauty, and the mature woman delicately bred that the in-version of all experience and likelihood which the scene of shadows presented, was heightened to its utmost.
-- Leisurely, our four horses are taken out; leisurely, the coach stands in the little street, bereft of horses, and with no likelihood upon it of ever moving again; leisurely, the new horses come into visible existence, one by one; leisure-ly, the new postilions follow, sucking and plaiting the lashes of their whips; leisurely, the old postilions count their mon-ey, make wrong additions, and arrive at dissatisfied results.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One would have thought that nothing could be simpler than for him, a man of good family, rather rich than poor, and thirty-two years old, to make the young Princess Shtcherbatskaya an offer of marriage; in all likelihood he would at once have been looked upon as a good match.
-- There seemed no likelihood that she could make out this complicated sentence; but he looked at her as though his life depended on her understanding the words.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I have constantly foreseen the likelihood of certain obstacles."
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I should have had to become a G.P., and you know what likelihood there is for a G.P.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Emma hoped it must rapidly work Harriet's cure; but the sensations which could prompt such behaviour sunk them both very much. It was not to be doubted that poor Harriet's attachment had been an offering to conjugal unreserve, and her own share in the story, under a colouring the least favourable to her and the most soothing to him, had in all likelihood been given also.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As they eyed the stranger in passing, they eyed him with borrowing eyes hungry, sharp, speculative as to his softness if they were accredited to him, and the likelihood of his standing something handsome.
-- On the other hand, when he recalled his conversation with Pancks, and the little reason he had to suppose that there was any likelihood of that strange personage being on that track at all, there were times when he wondered that he made so much of it.
-- 'Pardon me, sir,' she returned, 'if I doubt the likelihood of a gentleman of pleasure, and change, and politeness, accustomed to court and to be courted ''Oh madam!By Heaven!'
-- ' If I doubt the likelihood of such a character quite comprehending what belongs to mine in my circumstances.
-- Mrs Merdle's ComplaintResigning herself to inevitable fate by making the best of those people, the Miggleses, and submitting her philosophy to the draught upon it, of which she had foreseen the likelihood in her interview with Arthur, Mrs Gowan handsomely resolved not to oppose her son's marriage.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length, however, Mrs. Bennet had no more to say; and Lady Lucas, who had been long yawning at the repetition of delights which she saw no likelihood of sharing, was left to the comforts of cold ham and chicken.
-- Your portion is unhappily so small that it will in all likelihood undo the effects of your loveliness and amiable qualifications.
-- It now occurred to the girls that their mother was in all likelihood perfectly ignorant of what had happened.
-- 'After mentioning the likelihood of this marriage to her ladyship last night, she immediately, with her usual conde-scension, expressed what she felt on the occasion; when it become apparent, that on the score of some family objections on the part of my cousin, she would never give her consent to what she termed so disgraceful a match.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We stayed no less than twenty days at Pampeluna; when (seeing the winter coming on, and no likelihood of its being better, for it was the severest win-ter all over Europe that had been known in the memory of man) I proposed that we should go away to Fontarabia, and there take shipping for Bordeaux, which was a very little voyage.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elinor tried very seriously to convince him that there was no likelihood of her marrying Colonel Brandon; but it was an expectation of too much pleasure to himself to be relinquished, and he was really resolved on seeking an intimacy with that gentleman, and promoting the marriage by every possible attention.
-- "I do not know what I told her," he replied, impatiently; "less than was due to the past, beyond a doubt, and in all likelihood much more than was justified by the future.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In all likelihood he would encounter no one here.
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